Buckle.



BBBBB E.

APPLIGATIO N P I L E D J U L Y 1 0 l 9 1 1.

'UNITED STATES PATENT oFnIeE.

CHARLES E. BRADSI-IAW, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, `ASSIGNOR, TO THE ROBERT N. BASSETT COMPANY, OF SHELTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Application filed July 10, 1911.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914. serial No. 637,627.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BRAD- SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.y

My invention relates to lever buckles but more particularly to the manner in which the lever is connected to the back, and its object is to produce a buckle or like article having strong and durable lever bearings which will not project laterally beyond the side edges of the webbing so that the sides of the buckle will lie substantially flush with the sides of the webbing. I' attain this object in the details of construction and manner of operation more fully .set forth in the following description and accompanying` drawings in which like reference characters refer to corresponding parts.

In the drawings: Figures 1 and 2 are front and side views of the buckle when closed upon the webbing; Fig. 3, an enlarged front view showing one of the side ears in section, and Fig. 4, a vertical section taken on line r11-w in Fig. 3.

The buckle consists of the back or frame A and the lever B. The frame A is bent up out of sheet metal to form the back plate 2 having its lower extremity turned upwardly to form a projecting lip 3 which is swaged down to conline the end 7c of the webbing C between the lip and the face of the back, as shown in Fig. 2. The back plate 2 is provided with forwardly turned side ears or lugs 4, 4 which have their body portions centrally pierced and drawn or depressed inwardly forming the annular flanges 5, 5 and the apertures 6, 6, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The lever B is also bent up out of sheet metal to form the front portion or shield 7, the web engaging edge 8 and the laterally projecting trunnions 9, 9.y During the process of bending forward the side ears 4, 4 these trunnions 9, 9 pass through the apertures 6, 6 and into the flanges 5, 5 thereby forming journal or hinge connections between the back A and lever B. In webbing the buckle the running portion is looped downwardly from the secured extremity c through the casto D, and is then passed upwardly through the buckle between the back A and lever B, which latter when shut rdown .as shown ylocks the webbing against the back plate 2. It should be noticed that the inwardly projecting flanges 5, 5 are long enough so that the pintles are entirely housed'therein and do not project laterally beyond the outside'surface of they ears 4, 4. The punching and drawing of the flanges also strengthens and stiffens the ears and thereby enables a larger bearing or opening to be presented to each trunnion than that formed by merely piercing a flat ear of the same size. This stiening of the ears permits them to be considerably cut down so as to produce an extremely neat and compact journal connection. n

While I have shown my invention embodied `in the particular form of buckley above described it is obvious that it might be applied to any like article in which a lever is journaled between sheet metal ears.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is: f

l. A buckle or like article in which a lever is journaled between a pair of parallel sheet metal side ears, the said side ears being pierced and depressed to form a pair of inwardly projecting flanges presenting transversely alined apertures, the said lever having laterallyprojecting trunnions which are journaled in said apertures and the said trunnions being of such a length as not to project outwardly beyond the sides of said ears.

sheet metal back provided with forwardly turned side ears parallel with eachother and disposed at right angles to the back, the

said side ears being-pierced and depressed to form a pair of inwardlyy project-ing flanges presenting transversely alined apertures, and a lever having laterally projecting trunnions journaled in said apertures, the said trunnions being of suchy a length as not to project outwardly beyond the sides of saidears. f

l CHARLES E. BRADSHAW.

Witnesses:

EARL S. EDGERTON, WALTER A. HOLDEN.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

,. WMhInztOmD-GP j 

